I wonder where they get the book cover image. It's illegal in North America (tnings might be different in the Bahamas or Luxemburg) to make a wholesale grab of the ones that appears on Amazon pages and integrate them within an interface.
That's how library service companies like Syndetics make money! They make their own separate scan of the book cover (of a book they have in legal ownership) and sell that thumbnail or big thumbnail (they have different sizes) image to libraries which have more advanced on-line catalogs that can integrate any image to the bibiographic record. What would be really innovative and useful would be to have a denser zooming interface like that, for a virtual bookstore or a virtual library. It would be denser by showing scans of the spine of the real books or book covers. Books in a library often have bland indistict spines because the librarians take of the book cover, when it's a hradbound book, or they might even add a new binding to a paprerback book, thus erasing its colorful identoty. Showing a scan of the spine of a hardbound book's removable cover or of the original colorful spine of a paperboack or softback would give a distinct image (different typefaces for title and author in additon to color) and it would make for an extremely denser presentation than the cover dispay. --- Petteri Hiisilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I just stumbled upon something pretty impressing: > > Zoomii's bookstore uses a Google Maps -like interaction design > pattern > to display Amazon's books in an impossibly big bookshelf that can be > > zoomed in and out. You can fly to any shelf and pick a book. It works > > inside a browser without plugins. > > It's made by an individual called Chris Thiessen and funded by his > spouse. It's his "attempt to bring online as much of the real > bookstore experience as possible". To me his early attempt qualifies > > as indistinguishable from magic. > > http://zoomii.com/ > > What do you think? > > - Petteri > > -- > Petteri Hiisilä > palvelumuotoilija / > Senior Interaction Designer > iXDesign / +358505050123 / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "In this island, everything happens for a reason." > - John Locke, LOST > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > Découvrez les photos les plus intéressantes du jour. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
